GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1007

HOUSE BILL 1547

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A FOUR-YEAR TERM FOR THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF FAIR BLUFF AND STAGGERED FOUR-YEAR TERMS FOR THE TOWN BOARD OF COMMISSIONER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Sections 3 through 9 of Chapter 25, Private Laws, Extra Session of 1913, are repealed and the following new sections inserted:

"Sec. 2.1. The elected officers of the town are a Mayor and five members of the Board of Commissioners.

Sec. 2.2.  The elections shall be conducted in accordance with Subchapter IX of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes.  The mayor and commissioners shall be elected by the nonpartisan plurality method.

Sec. 2.3.

(a)       In the 1985 municipal election and quadrennially thereafter, the Mayor shall be elected for a four- year term.

(b)       In the 1985 municipal election five commissioners shall be elected. The three persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a four-year term and the two persons receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a two-year term. In 1987 and quadrennially thereafter, two commissioners shall be elected for four-year terms. In 1989 and quadrennially thereafter, three commissioners shall be elected for four-year terms."

Sec. 2.  This act does not affect the terms of the current Mayor and Board of Commissioners.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1984.